Barrel-tongs.



S. L. COLBY.

BARREL TONGS.

APPLICATION FILED we. 4, 1905.

Patented Feb.22, 1910.

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- lifting and lowering the kegs or barrels in a STATES PATENT UFFTCE.

SAMUEL L. COLEY, OF LEES SUMMIT. MISSOURI.

BARREL- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL L. Conny, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lees Summit, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented a new and useful Barrel-'ltmgs, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to a lifting, grap pling, or lowering device. forlifting, grappling or lowering barrels and kegs, and more especially forbarrels and kegs containing liquors, paints, paint leads, etc, whichkegs and barrels are made very heavy and strong, so as to stand roughhandling and not be burst open by their heavy contents.

This device is especially adapted for lowering and lifting kegs orbarrels through an opening which not much larger than the diameter ofthe keg or barrel, or which is barely large enough to pass the keg orbarrel. In my own business I find this device very useful for loweringand lifting barrels of liquor through a small trap-door in the floor,and this is the only simple, practical device of which I am aware. bywhich this can. be accomplished.

The utility of this device is not limited to vertical direction. It isequally well adapted for lowering and drawing up the barrels and kegsupon inclined skidways, which are extensively used for transferring thepackages to and from the basements of buildings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the device as in positionwith a barrel suspended thereby, the supporting rope being omitted;Figs. 2 and 3 are detached views of the two links, respectively. Fig. 4tillustrates my preferred form of the grappling points of my liftingdevice.

Briefly stated, the invention consists of a pair of grappling hooks,peculiarly formed and pivotally connected by a bolt or rivet. two linksconnected to the shanks of the grappling hooks, and a ring or itsequivalent, connecting the links.

2 and. 2 designate the lower portions of the grappling hooks, 3 and 3being the upper portions or shanks thereof. t is a rivet or bolt, bywhich these members are pivotally connected together. The upperportions, or shanks 3, normally occupy ver- Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed August 4, 1905.

' device do not cross one another.

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Serial No. 272,780.

tical positions, with the lower ends thereof bent toward one anotheruntil they meet; and at the meeting point, the rivet lpasses through thetwo shanks, and from thence the lower portions 9 are bent out 'ard inapproximate horizontal planes; and thus each member 2 is on the sameside of the pivot point, as is the corresponding shank 3; or, in otherwords, the members of the The ends of the lower portions 2 arepreferably pointed, and rounded (eonically) so that they will not tearthe fibers of the wood of the chime when the barrel or keg swingssuspended or is dragged along by the tongs, whereas if the ends of thehooks were formed with chisel edges, such injury to the chime of thekegs or barrels might occur. This preferred form of the points isillustrated in Fig. -:lof the drawing.

The shanks 3 of the hooks are preferably of about the form shown, butthis precise form is of course not es; aitial to the operation of thedevice. Holes are punched or. drilled in the upper ends of the shanks 3,and through these holes two links (5 are passed. The links are made openin the first place, and are then passed through the holes in the shanks.They a also passed through a bail-ring '7, and are then welded togetherforming solid .liuks. Said ring forms a supporting member for the linksand hooks, and also draws the upper ends of the shanks 3 the moretightly together, the greater the weight of the barrel or keg which issupported. Before inserting the hooks into the chime of a barrel or keg,the shanks are spreak a part, as indicated by dotted lines, therebydrawing together the ends of the hooks. After the ends of the lowerportions 2 of the hooks are properly ongaged on a barrel, the ring 7 iselevated by suitable hoisting means; and. as the upper ends of theshanks 3 are drawn together, the outer ends of the portions 2 are corres)ondingly spread. thus engaging the barre and carrying the same upwardas the hoisting mechanism is operated.

This device may be made in any number of different sizes, adapted forhandling any and all sizes of kegs and barrels.

Having described my invention, what I each of which is bent outwardlyand upclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters links connected withthe upper ends of the 10 Patent of the United States, is: I shanks, anda link connecting the links car- The herein described barrel tongscomried by the shanks.

prising a pair of hooks pivoted together, In testimony whereof I affixmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL L. GOLEY.

wardly from their pivotal centers, thence straight upwardly to form ashank and bent downwardly and outwardly from their pivotal centers toform horizontal arms,

Witnesses ERNEST S. BENNETT, K. M. IMBODEN.

